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Tupaia (mammal)

Tupaia
Pygmy treeshrew
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Scandentia
Family: Tupaiidae
Genus: Tupaia
Raffles, 1821
Type species
Tupaia ferruginea [1]
Raffles, 1821
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Chladobates Schinz, 1824
  • Cladobates F. Cuvier, 1825
  • Gladobates Schinz, 1824
  • Glipora Jentink, 1888
  • Glirisorex Scudder, 1882
  • Glisorex Desmarest, 1822
  • Glisosorex Giebel, 1855
  • Hylogale Temminck, 1827
  • Hylogalea Schlegel and Mueller, 1843
  • Lyonogale Conisbee, 1953
  • Palaeotupaia Chopra and Vasishat, 1979
  • Sorex-glis É. Geoffroy and F. Cuvier, 1822
  • Tana Lyon, 1913
  • Tapaia Gray, 1860
  • Tupaja Haeckel, 1866
  • Tupaya É. Geoffroy and F. Cuvier, 1822

Tupaia is a treeshrew genus in the family Tupaiidae that was first described by Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1821.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b Helgen, K.M. (2005). "Tupaia". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ Raffles, T. S. (1821). "Descriptive Catalogue of a Zoological Collection made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the Island of Sumatra and its Vicinity, under the Direction of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Fort Marlborough; with additional Notices illustrative of the Natural History of those Countries". The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. XIII. Linnean Society of London: 239–340.

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